Sean Foreman was born in Boulder, Colorado and attended Fairview High School.[3] He graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder with an English major and math minor.[4] He has two brothers, Spencer, who played in the band Cobraconda and another who plays piano.[5]
Career
Before joining 3OH!3, Foreman was competing in MC battles and formed his first hip-hop group with Devin Scheffel.[6] Foreman co-writes all of 3OH!3's music.[6] They released their self-titled debut album on July 2, 2007.[7] The duo's second studio album Want, released on July 8, 2008,[8] went platinum in 2023.[9] The lead single "Don't Trust Me" was No. 1 on pop radio and sold over 6 million copies.[2] "Starstrukk", the second single from the album, went 2× Platinum in the US and peaked within the top five of the charts in countries such as Australia.[9][10] Its radio-only and deluxe album version of "Starstrukk", featuring pop singer Katy Perry, was released along with a music video.[11] 3OH!3's lead single from Streets of Gold, "My First Kiss" featuring Kesha, went gold after selling over 500,000 copies.[9] The duo released their fourth studio album Omens on June 18, 2013.[12] 3OH!3's fifth studio album, Night Sports, was released on May 13, 2016 on Fueled By Ramen.[13] They released their sixth studio album Need on August 27, 2021.[14]
He married his college sweetheart, Melanie Mary Knigge, in 2013. They later divorced in 2019, and in 2021 he married Poppy Platford, with whom he shares a son and a daughter. Foreman is an avid book reader and comic book collector, and made his own comic for the Streets of Gold deluxe record.[20]
Foreman is a World Champion Ultimate Frisbee player. He won the Junior Gold Medal with Team USA in 2004.[21] He won college nationals in ultimate frisbee in 2004 with CU's Mamabird.[22] Foreman also once rode a bicycle from New York City to Boulder. In 2010, he ran the Chicago marathon for the American Cancer Society.
